(A Concise Guide to the Collection, Preparation, and Preservation of Herbarium Specimens, revised Oct 1997) COLLECTION, PREPARATION, AND PRESERVATION OF HERBARIUM SPECIMENS
__________________ Words in bold indicate the alternative used at the Rocky Mountain Herbarium FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON FIELD AND HERBARIUM TECHNIQUES SEE: Benson, L. 1979. Plant Classification. Heath and Co., pp. 423-444. Forman, L. and D. Bridson. 1991. The Herbarium Handbook. Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Jones, S. B., Jr., and A. E. Luchsinger. 1979. Plant Systematics. McGraw-Hill Book Co., pp. 138-156. Lawrence, G. 1951. Taxonomy of Vascular Plants. Macmillan Co., pp. 234-262. Savile, D. B. O. 1962. Collection and Care of Botanical Specimens. Publ. 1113, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture. Smith, C. E., Jr. 1971. Preparing Herbarium Specimens of Vascular Plants. Agric. Information Bull. 348, USDA (Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington D.C. 20402 (stock no. 001-000-01159-6). SOURCES OF COLLECTING AND HERBARIUM SUPPLIES Carolina Biological Supply Company, Powell Lab. Division, Gladstone, OR 97027 (503/656-1641; 800/547-1733) Herbarium Supply Company, 3483 Edison Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415/366-8868; 800/348-2338) Pacific Papers, P.O. Box 606, Cotati, CA 94931 (800/676-1151) St. Louis Paper and Box Company, P.O. Box 8260, St. Louis, MO 63156 (314/531-7900; 800/444-0891)
FOR ASSISTANCE WITH PLANT IDENTIFICATION (IN EXCHANGE FOR DUPLICATES):
Phone: 307/766-2236 FAX: 307/766-2851 FLORAS USEFUL FOR PLANT IDENTIFICATION IN WYOMING Albee, B. J., L. M. Shultz, and S. Goodrich. 1988. Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Utah. Utah Museum of Natural History, Occasional Publ. 7, xx + 670 pp. Arnow, L., B. Albee, and A. Wyckoff. 1980. Flora of the Central Wasatch Front, Utah. Univ. of Utah Printing Service, Salt Lake City, xiv + 663 pp. Barkley, T. M., ed. 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames, xii + 600 pp. Cronquist, A., A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, and J. L. Reveal. 1972. Intermountain Flora. Vol. 1, Hafner Publ. Co. Cronquist, A., A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal, and P. K. Holmgren. 1977. Intermountain Flora. Vol. 6, Columbia University Press, New York. Cronquist, A., A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal, and P. K. Holmgren. 1984-1994. Intermountain Flora. Vols. 3B, 4, 5, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx. Cronquist, A., N. H. Holmgren, and P. K. Holmgren. 1997. Intermountain Flora. Vol. 3A, The New York Botanial Garden, Bronx Dorn, R. D. 1977. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Wyoming. Garland Publ. Co., New York, 1498 pp. Dorn, R. D. 1977. Flora of the Black Hills. Mountain West Publ., Box 1471, Cheyenne, WY 82003, x + 377 pp. Dorn, R. D. 1984. Vascular Plants of Montana. Mountain West Publ., Box 1471, Cheyenne, WY 82003, iv + 276 pp. Dorn, R. D. 1992. Vascular Plants of Wyoming. Ed. 2, Mountain West Publ., Box 1471, Cheyenne, WY 82003, iv + 340 pp. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 1993+. Flora of North America. Vols. 1-3, Oxford University Press, NY. (30 volumes upon completion). Goodrich, S. and E. Neese. 1986. Uinta Basin Flora. USDA, Forest Service, Intermountain Region, Ogden, UT, xvii + 320 pp. Great Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. Univ. Press of Kansas, Lawrence, vii + 1392 pp. Harrington, H. D. 1954. Manual of the Plants of Colorado. Sage Books. x + 666 pp. Hitchcock, C. L. and A. Cronquist. 1973. Flora of the Pacific Northwest. Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, xix + 730 pp. Hitchcock, C. L., A. Cronquist, M. Ownbey, and J. W. Thompson. 1955-1969. Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. 5 vols., Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle as Vol. 17 of the Univ. of Washington Publ. in Biology Lackschewitz, K. 1991. Vascular Plants of West-Central Montana--Identification Guidebook. USDA, Forest Service, Intermountain Res. Sta. General Tech. Rept. INT-277, 648 pp. Nelson, B. E. 1984. Vascular Plants of the Medicine Bow Range. Rev. ed, Jelm Mountain Press. Van Bruggen, T. 1985. The Vascular Plants of South Dakota. Ed. 2, Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames, xxv + 476 pp. Weber, W. A. and R. C. Whittmann. 1996. Colorado Flora: Western Slope. Revised Ed. Univ. Press of Colorado, Niwot, 80544, xxxvii + 496 pp. Weber, W. A. and R. C. Whittmann. 1996. Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope. Revised Ed. Univ. Press of Colorado, Niwot, 80544, xl + 524 pp. Weber, W. A. and R. C. Wittmann. 1992. Catalog of the Colorado Flora: A Biodiversity Baseline. Univ. Press of Colorado, Niwot, 80544, xi + 215 pp. Welsh, S. L., N. D. Atwood, L. C. Higgins, and S. Goodrich, eds. 1993. A Utah Flora. Ed. 2, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, vii + 986 pp. FIELD LABEL *Collector _________________________________________ *No. __________ *Date collected ___________________________________ Family (or acronym) _________________________________________________ Scientific name_____________________________________________________ Locality, *State: _____________ *County: _______________________________ *Verbal: ________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Township ________________ Range ________________ Section __________ Elevation: _________________________________________________________ *Habitat _________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ *Occurrence: Common __________, Occasional ____________, Rare _________ Plant Height__________________________ Flower color ___________________ Remarks:________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ * Essential data, the remainder, can be obtained from maps, iding plant, etc. SAMPLE LABEL
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